tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20008953254362580942024-03-14T14:49:23.431-04:00 xRose Brier Studio (moved)Being Mindful, Telling StoriesRose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-79131913135483881892018-09-24T07:57:00.003-04:002018-09-26T09:14:14.076-04:00Moving My BlogI have changed my URL, but not the name of the blog or who I am and what I post about.<br />
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Rose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-55650264150640314552018-06-19T07:36:00.003-04:002018-06-19T07:59:21.562-04:00Visibility<br />
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This is me -- a maker of pretty, crafty, decorative things.</div>
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I am also a wife, a mom, an artist, a gardener, a reader, a traveler, and a loyal friend.</div>
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This week is Summer School for Susannah Conway's ecourse, <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/the-inside-story/" target="_blank">The Inside Story</a>. </div>
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The focus is VISIBILITY! </div>
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I took the course a few years ago and each summer she inspires us, nudges us to look at an aspect of </div>
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"Running a Heart-Centered Business." My business is making art and selling it and teaching it --</div>
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When the kids were little I decorated wreaths and anything else I could find with beautiful dried & silk flowers.</div>
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It was fun, creative and it let me stay at home with them and still make money. </div>
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Next to inspire me was the pretty pink part of the blogosphere.</div>
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Here I found mixed media collage, art workshops, ways to connect with other creative women,<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The shoe is my wedding shoe. It no longer fits so I painted it and decorated it with bling.</span><br />
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I made the tag for a friend going on an adventure.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Next I'd like to show what I am doing now, but I haven't moved those photos from my camera to the computer and there isn't enough time to do it and still get to my yoga class.</span><br />
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I'd never come back to the post and it and I would remain invisible.</div>
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As you can see, I didn't leave this post as a draft. I am letting myself be visible even if it's not "perfect." After all, I can post again later today or tomorrow or another day this week!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the middle of Proud Warrior, which takes a lot of concentration for me to get the arms, legs, stomach, head & neck right, it came to me that my life is about FRIENDSHIP. Rather apropos. For me, proud warrior is a very feminine pose. And most of my friends are women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last January spending 4 months in California was really mostly about being near my friends. Yes, the weather was milder than New England. Yes, it was fun to see if I could find a place to live where I didn't need a car. And yes, I got to see my family (and go to Disneyland) more than when I am home. But mostly it was about being with friends and feeling valued by them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And during yoga class I was reminded that I am not alone. Sometimes my life here in New England feels a little lonely. And it's not like I don't love to spend time by myself. It's just hardly anyone calls me up to do lunch, and that's always been a hallmark of friendship for me. Still I have an amazing group of women & men I have known a long time -- one since we were 5 years old, many from junior high & high school and a few from my just after-college years in Boston. And if they can't call me up to do lunch, then maybe it's time for me to reach out to them on a more regular basis. Hence the beginnings of "Monday Musings." A way to reach out. And given the way my thoughts expand when I do yoga, I'm sure lots of things will occur to me to muse about.</span><br />
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On the Cape, it's Saturdays when one group of vacationers start their holiday and another group ends theirs. The bridges are jammed, both ways, and if you don't need to be anywhere, you're smart to stay off the road til things calm down.</div>
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At summer camp it was also Saturday, when one set of campers left and another set arrived. Those who had never driven the camp road before could be a little put out by the signs, "Camp Around The Corner," and a mile later the sign, "We Didn't Say Which Corner!" Those who felt camp was their other home were thrilled by the humor!</div>
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This day was my changing from Toulouse by myself to Chateau Dumas with a group of 12 women, 1 husband, Anna the artist, Jane the assistant, Lizzie, the owner, the chateau staff and me.</div>
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By sunset all the participants had arrived. What a lovely group of women (& husband). This looks to be a wonderful week!</div>
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Friday wasn't an early day for me. I even considered just staying in bed. But really, that seemed entirely too self-indulgent and boorish! So I ventured out, unfortunately, after all the local eateries were no longer serving lunch. I have been known to skip a meal, so I figured I would survive. I made my way back to Place St-Georges, where the Walking Tour started, and wandered around.</div>
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During World War II, Jules-Gerard Saliege, the Archbishop of Toulouse was outspoken in his condemnation of German and Vichy treatment of Jews. He read out a letter which actively admonished the Catholic church to protect their Jewish neighbors. He was responsible for saving many lives and was made a Cardinal after the war. Outside the church, in a little park there is a bust of him and the words of his letter on a plaque.<br />
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It's not really part of the tour, but the window display is so clever! They sent out a request for women to send in their pointe shoes. Each pair of shoes notes the name and age of the person who wore these ballet shoes. The ballerinas range in age from 14 to 88 years old!</div>
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On the walking tour we only saw the outside, but I returned the next day and the inside is beautiful.</div>
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I have friends who are able to post everyday while on trips. I have no idea how they do it. This trip is so full of adventures that I can barely catch my breath, let along blog. Still I am committed to sharing the trip, so next post continues my rambles in Toulouse.</div>
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Rose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-47921155545754836092016-10-12T07:39:00.000-04:002016-10-17T07:40:07.488-04:00Toulouse <span style="text-align: center;">My lack of French language skills has been a real challenge for me this year. The first couple times I visited, it didn't matter. The city was new to me, I didn't expect to understand, I never studied French.</span><br />
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But this is my fourth visit. I know some places, I feel a little at home here. But without the language I can see how much I miss. And it's not like people don't make every effort to communicate with me. They are lovely that way. But I actually think it's a bit unfair that I make them do all that work, when it is their country I am visiting!</div>
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If I return I vow to bring a French-English dictionary, at least. But I may actually have to make an effort, check out Rosetta Stone from the library and learn rudimentary French.</div>
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Toulouse is not just one thing. It is an old city, a university town, the home of Airbus, full of fascinating history and so many more things I may never know. I will do my posts about some of the things that I have found -- mostly through getting lost, but then Toulouse is a wonderful city to get lost in!</div>
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When I went to France as part of my birthday year celebration in 2011, I thought that would be it. I had been to Aix and Paris with my brother years before and it was nice, but I didn't think I would return.</div>
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When my dad offered each of his adult children a trip anywhere in the world, I chose England.</div>
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I knew English horse racing from reading Dick Frances, and Regenecy history from reading Georgette Heyer, and the geography from hundreds of cosy English mysteries. It was a world I felt comfortable in.</div>
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Then my birthday year happened and different artists I admired were part of two separate week long workshops in rural France. I had to go!<br />
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In between the workshops I spent 10 days with my husband, mostly in the Langedoc Roussillon region -- Carcassone, Collioure, Ceret. I love that it's also known as the Spanish Frontier!<br />
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We discovered a double-walled medieval castle; a town dedicated to "wild" artists and the views that inspired them; two museums featuring the amazing work of Josep Reira I Arago; a full set of Picasso ceramics; amazing food.<br />
My husband, who told me before we married that he didn't like to travel, was bitten by the travel bug!<br />
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France is a beautiful country. But there are a lot of beautiful countries. What touched my heart were the people. I speak no French (tho apparently I can say that sentence in French with an acceptable accent!) Sometimes the people I met spoke no English, like lots of the flea market vendors or the deli owner who sold us wonderful take away food. It was a surprise to discover I know the words for different meats (as a cook, I'm a vegetarian, so that ability is odd). Sometimes they knew English, but weren't comfortable speaking it. I'd ask combien (how much)? And then have to ask them to write the numbers. . . I got good at charades!</div>
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What I found were people genuinely helpful, and kind. They made me feel at home.<br />
I love the climate and know a lot of the plant names (interesting how similar those aspects are to where I grew up)! Oh and have I mentioned the brocantes and flea markets?<br />
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So since the 2011 trip I have been to France and the Chateau twice more.<br />
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So it is with a great deal of joy that I will return to France next week.<br />
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Walking around, paying attention to art & architecture, taking in a yoga class (the teacher is from Australia -- I'm adventurous, but yoga in French is prob too much for me!), and hanging out at my favorite flea market on as many Saturdays as I can manage! </div>
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I have never found the chateau's internet particularly robust! Still it is my goal to document this trip <i>as I am on it, </i>so come back every couple of days and see what I'm seeing and doing!<br />
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Rose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-52587206609593445902016-03-08T09:21:00.000-05:002016-03-08T09:54:54.620-05:00International Women's Day <div style="text-align: center;">
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I know some amazing women -- women who have traveled around the globe or who have never left their hometown.</div>
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Today and everyday, celebrate the amazing women in your life!<br />
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It turns out I have way more photos of architecture and plants than I do of my friends,<br />
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I've known both these women since Jr High School<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This visit I found a beautiful linen sheet, a monogrammed gift for a friend who loves French linens, and hand-written ledgers from the 19th century. All beautiful items, all heavy, all make me wonder how I am going to get them home. . . I will worry about that all later!</span><br />
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Rose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-54919893728055039872014-10-07T23:30:00.000-04:002014-10-18T02:24:37.518-04:00Day 4 & 5 - Hill Towns of the Luberon<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to art projects, we drove each day to near-by towns. If we went mornings there were often markets, afternoons it was museums, or beautiful churches and all had amazing architecture and unexpected photo opportunities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am really fond of these narrow, enclosed streets.</span></div>
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Mon/Tues 6/7 OctRose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-15742685417922551962014-10-06T23:30:00.000-04:002014-10-18T02:24:23.567-04:00Day 4 -- Making Art<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first project was a "petite keepsake journal"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in March, when I knew I was going on this trip I started an altered-book travel journal. I used a commercially made 5x7" blank book with various pretty artwork already on the pages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In keeping with One Little Word, I had the beginning pages focus on what I wanted from the trip:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> . . . telling stories . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> . . . mapping my journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And for each part of the trip I made a separate section with what I knew of the itinerary, maps, names of participants and space to add photos, ephemera and commentary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So for the keepsake journal, I thought I would make it an autograph book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First design the front and back covers, then brush melted beeswax on the covers. I've done this before and got a bit cocky, thinking I knew what I was doing. It resulted in very rough, streaky beeswax. Oh well. It goes with the ocean theme. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After my new friends wrote in it, I added paper bits that reminded me of them. For some I am still searching for that perfect image to embellish their sweet words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's a cameraderie, a friendship that develops with the other dealers. They are such generous people and one of the best things about being a vendor is the folks I get to see each week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the town of Menerbes, we went to a vide grenier, which literally means cleaning the attic. These are held yearly in villages -- it's a whole village tag sale. One finds clothes, toys, furniture, books from book dealers, books a family no longer wants, and other treasures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The book, titled Le General Douraukine, apparently is a 19th c. tale of caution. As the vendor shared the story, it sounded much like Dickens: a bad man, who hurts orphans and in the end the orphans triumph. I loved that the vendor wanted to share the story with me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got the most amazing paper and other finds for collage and sale, but I was so entranced by what was offered, I got no photos of the actual market. I know, I'm a sorry artful blogger! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last we went to a market written up in all the books, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. I didn't purchase anything there, but the vendors allowed me to take photos -- so my favorite things:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sorry you didn't fit in my suitcase, Shelby!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Due to circumstances completely in my control, we got started late from the Marseille airport, I met the women who would be driving with me and they are delightful. We opted for a larger car, which came with automatic transmission, and began loading our luggage into the trunk. The car was unlocked and we closed the trunk to make sure everything would fit. All well and good, but the whole car locked at this point. No problem, except I had put my purse, with the keys in the trunk. Still no problem I think, I'll just go ask for their duplicate key, feel like a bit of an idiot and get the car unlocked. Seems this car is from Paris, as the Paris office has the other key. Someone from the equivalent of AAA arrives about an hour later and opens the car. I am very sorry I didn't take a photo, as the tools to unlock the car are ingenious. But the camera was locked in the car too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Driving from the airport to our destination, La Bastide de Bonnieux is through beautiful, twisty, mountainous country. If you have ever driven on the road from Santa Rosa up to Calistoga and then continued on the Middletown, you know what the road looks like (so, my husband, kids, and anyone who has ever gone to Camp Verdant Vales is visualizing it). One would think this would be difficult, and the ladies in the car with me certainly did. But it was like being home again and I had no problems. It was helpful that no one was driving down as I was driving up though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have a GPS in our car. I have never used GPS before and didn't think I would like it. But in this instance, it was great. It's possible that Lizette (we named her) took us on the more scenic route. At one point I missed the turn and we found ourselves at a charming little outdoor restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were no seats to Marseille to be had yesterday. And the earliest they could book me would have been today at 3 pm, arriving many, many hours after I was s'posed to pick up two of the women traveling to the art workshop with me. So, what's a girl to do? Talk to the agent nicely and see how to get me to France. I figured once in France, anywhere in France, I could somehow find my way to Marseille. I had paid for a hotel room for last night, I had an agreement to meet L & C at the car rental place. I was on a mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The flight to Nice was delayed just a bit. Enough so the buses and trains that might have taken me to Marseille have left their stations. I have no idea how I am getting to Marseille. I mention this to the woman next to me on the plane. Turns out most everyone flying British Airways yesterday was negatively affected. She says have them get you to Marseille this evening and don't take no for an answer. Not my usual way, but ok. At this point I am hoping that someone will hear my plight, and offer me a ride to Marseille, Isn't that a movie with John Candy and a Polka band?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been told by someone who observes me closely that I have a very high regard for myself, so whether I really am good at travel is up for discussion. However, I am awful in the preparation for a trip. I go overboard. All the laundry has to be done. The whole house has to be cleaned. Sometimes I am even compelled to re-arrange books or furniture. I shop for clothes I might need and then return most of them. I agonize over what luggage to bring! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This trip will include art workshops and outings to brocantes (French flea markets), antique shops, second hand shops, lots of places to buy wonderful vintage goodies. Last time I ended up buying this blue suitcase there to hold all my extra treasures. This trip I'm returning with that suitcase empty. Hence what looks in the above photo as a suitcase inside another one is actually that! The suitcases with all the scissors and sharp pointy things are getting checked, my clothes are carry-on</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I leave tomorrow. All my clothes are packed. My art supplies are packed. My toiletries all fit in a quart size container-- now that is a true feat, let me tell you! Do I have everything I want to bring? I'm not sure. Will I look like a pack mule at the airport? I sincerely hope not. Once the plane takes off will I let go of all this craziness? YES, YES, YES. Perhaps that's why I keep traveling. The before stuff makes me and all my loved one a bit nuts. But the trip takes over and I am able to go with the flow, at least that's what I tell myself. I'm not sure we should ask the observer. She'd probably say I'm way too intense wherever I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A bientot</span>Rose Brier Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09411800366855319730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2000895325436258094.post-13341798899671349272014-09-29T19:19:00.000-04:002014-10-09T15:46:52.903-04:00The Gardener of Versailles<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I was there, it was particularly fun to visualize some of the places and plantings he wrote about.</span><br />
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Both grandma and nana loved them, which makes them very special to me.<br />
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I did go over to the barn/studio with the idea I would post about our next, fabulous day in Paris. And while I was looking at <i>all</i> the photos I had taken in this heavenly garden, it also hit me that my friend Lynn is coming to visit next week to play/create in the barn. And the barn/studio is a mess!<br />
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